Special isssue

The field of mobilities research has critically examined many aspects of high mobility societies and the mobile lives of the kinetic elite. Yet many students, researchers, and academics engage in much global travel as part of their education and career progression. This article will consider the ethics of global educational travel today, applying a mobility justice lens to consider the ends and purposes for which we value academic travel. What kinds of educational and academic mobilities should be encouraged, and what kinds limited? What are the principles that should guide ethical academic travel today? And how can a mobility justice lens help academic institutions evaluate and create guidance around ethical academic travel? As the new Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, USA, I examine our own practice of interdisciplinary project-based global learning as a case study to develop best practices and new policies.